Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benito Mussolini is piqued, so is the whole Italian press. Last week Il Duce's annoyance at the good show Democracy was putting on in Paris caused many Italian papers to omit accounts of the British royal visit, provoked one to attribute this apocryphal quote to Queen Elizabeth: "I haven't seen anything but the horses of our guards...
Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
...Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They...
...Hawthorne, a painter's job was to "show people more than they already see," and beauty in art he defined as "the delicious notes of color one against the other." To see things simply, he insisted, is the hardest thing in the world-"When a man is sixty or seventy, he may be able to do a thing simply, and the whole world rejoices...
...week persuasive Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras declared with characteristic finesse: Imagine! Here is a country granting us a loan without asking anything in return. Any other country would have demanded all sorts of privileges. Britain asked nothing. She trusted us as she would a real friend. Britain showed she has faith in us. We will show her that this faith is not misplaced. No matter what happens, never will we be found in a camp opposing Britain. Britain may lose a battle, but never a war. She has money, a navy and character...